“One is not born but rather becomes a woman” – writes Simone de Beauvoir in her book, The Second Sex. The
feminist writers defies the representation of women as weak, docile, innocent or seductive in the cultural texts such as
cinema, music, painting, soap opera and literature. These cultural texts normalize the sub-ordinate position of women
and helps patriarchy, in retaining the power structure. A woman is projected as an object of pleasure and her primary
function as procreation. Women are trained to fit into these roles which are not natural, but social. The woman’s womb is
reduced to the status of power sites. The existing inequalities are the constructions of the patriarchal society to maintain
the hierarchy. Cultural institutions like religion, family, education and art, validates this representation. This re-assertion
naturalizes the idea ‘biology is destiny’ and suffices the institutions in maintaining their positions. The three texts- The
Pakistani Bride, Train to Pakistan and The Book of Woman authored by Sidhwa Singh and spiritual guru Osho
respectively testifies how society constantly trains us to read and write from a man’s point of view. These three texts
produced during different periods of history consciously or unconsciously reiterate the clichéd idea called ‘woman’.
Though these writers take different subject positions they ultimately tie women to the stake called procreation

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